Kyu Sang Lee
Myths Are Your Dreams, Dreams Are My Myths
Preview by invitation only
Friday 13.09.2024
18.00 / 20.00 h.
Opening
Saturday 14.09.2024
11.00 / 19.00 h.
Sunday 15.09.2024
11.00 / 16.00 h.
Spinnerei Leipzig
Werkschau Spinnerei, Spinnereistraße 7, 04179, Leipzig.
Kyu Sang Lee, born in Seoul in 1993, moved to Cape Town during his childhood. He studied Fine Arts at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts, University of Cape Town and he is currently completing Meisterstudium at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig.
Growing up in three different continents, each different places he has been born, raised and now works in, have let him have multi-faceted perspectives and wide understanding in various cultures and socio-cultural systems. Reflecting his diverse experiences across continents, Lee’s images are filled with surreal narrative, often with peculiarity and symbolisms, provoke deep contemplation. Monumental sculptures resembling fragmented bodies, organic forms in backgrounds and decorative yet allogeneous elements cohabitate in the timeless, black and white void.
His surreal imagery traverses various cultures and eras, evoking a festival-like scene. Often accompanied with the accentuated ‘chroma key green’ colour, it holds significant symbolic importance in his oeuvre.
The chroma key green, initially starkly conspicuous against any background, ultimately fades into the given environment as a digital insertion. This “chroma key green” has evolved into an important metaphor in Kyusang Lee’s work, reflecting his personal journey to find a sense of belonging in a constantly changing world, while also symbolising the bridge between digital technological innovation and human expression.
Lee’s artistic vision transcends both temporal and cultural boundaries, suggesting new narrative and meanings through amalgamation and recontextualisation. From his perspective time is not simply linear but subjective and intertwined with one’s experience. Lee views time as a mirror and vessel which contains histories, identities and cultures shaping our existence. The extensive and personal time he has spent across three continents made him transcend binary thinking, emphasising the universal essence to human condition while expressing the complexity of the world.
Lee is deeply influenced by geographical and cultural intersections, exploring the fluidity of time and space and their collective impact on human experience. His work reflects on the boundaries between human and non-human, the integration of various knowledge systems, and the continuous interaction between cultural and technological evolution.
Lee’s works capture different moments and scenes, meticulously edited into a consistent composition that blurs the lines between real and unreal, reflecting the constant changes in life and exploring the space between the two. He aims to highlight universal connections beyond spatial and cultural boundaries, focusing on intersections rather than conflicts to explore the emergence of new systems or worlds.
